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#GreatMTLer: Nathalie Bondil is an icon of Montreal’s art scene

WATCH: As director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Nathalie Bondil is a busy woman. Global News Montreal Senior Anchor Jamie Orchard speaks to this great Montrealer about how she’s not afraid to take creative chances.

She said she’s not afraid to take creative chances, inviting fashion houses into the museum with retrospectives of Yves Saint Laurent and Jean-Paul Gauthier — a collection that has now toured all over the world.

“Jean-Paul did accept [to collaborate] with us, with me, at the very beginning of this fabulous adventure,” Bondil told Global News.

“Now, I’m so happy because after almost a decade, the exhibition is still on the road and we just opened in Buenos Aires last week.”

The Gauthier exhibit was just one in a series of innovative ideas that helped put the MMFA on the world stage — others include the introduction of music and the opening of a new pavilion for peace in 2016.